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The only thing more embarrassing than a snubbed handshake is a nationally televised snubbed handshake.<p>Exhibit A: Tom Brady's awkwardly unmet high-five, here:<p>So when World Cup referee Joe Fletcher was snubbed from a handshake with a FIFA official prior to Wednesday's game between Spain and Chile, he …

Britain is an "old, declining empire" which resorts to "eccentric acts" to hide its embarrassment over its declining power, an official Chinese newspaper has claimed on the second day of a visit by the country's premier, Li Keqiang, to London.<p>As China was given the chance to take a decisive stake …

Even though top football stars such as Luis Suarez, Neymar, and Wayne Rooney wear them, the popular Beats brand of headphones are banned at World Cup grounds when it comes to players wearing them.<p>FIFA's World Cup Ban on Beats Headphones Backfires<p>06/18/2014<p>Even though top football stars such as Luis …

The liquid pharmacy in your glass, and why you shouldn't be too concerned<p>In the 1970s, several studies turned up pharmaceuticals in treated U.S. sewage water, and drugs have been a known unknown in water supplies ever since. Recently, researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency tested 50 …

A new study found that when resources were scarce, white people had different definitions of "black" and were less generous toward people with darker skin tones than toward people with lighter skin.<p>The Labor Department said on Friday that employers hired 217,000 workers last month, bringing the job …

Trial of two men charged with terrorism offences could be heard entirely behind closed doors for first time in modern UK history<p>A major criminal trial involving two men charged with serious terrorism offences could be held entirely in secret for the first time in modern British legal …

Punched. Slapped. Cursed at. Deprived of water and food. Shackled to a bed with a "four-point restraint for almost a month."<p>U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi says that's what life was like for him in his first weeks in a Mexican prison. He ended up there after unwittingly crossing the border from …

A pregnant woman is beaten to death by her relatives outside a court building. And for what? She eloped with the man she loved rather than marry the groom chosen by her family.<p>The terrible fate of Farzana Parveen, 25, is one shared by all too many women in Pakistan and elsewhere.<p>She was killed in …

Though we're pretty sure that time travelers don't exist, people were working on hypertext -- used by web browsers to retrieve connected information -- long before computers. It even predates the ideas of a certain Vannevar Bush, the man generally acknowledged as having laid the groundwork for …

In America, the history of the criminal justice—and of executions—is inseparable from white supremacy.<p>Fifteen years ago, Clayton Lockett shot Stephanie Neiman twice, then watched as his friends buried her alive. Last week, Lockett was tortured to death by the state of Oklahoma. The torture was not …

(Its author, Patrick Radden Keefe, just won the National Magazine Award for reporting.)<p>Our favorite was this: the drug lord, Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo aka "Shorty," loved gourmet food, and despite living high up in the Sierra Madres to evade arrest, he couldn't resist heading down to …

It’s well established that black men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men. A new study (paywall) suggests that differences in the way African-Americans process vitamin D could explain some of these worse outcomes. For several reasons not completely understood, …

Muscle tone, endurance, memory, and smell improve in elderly mice infused with blood from younger mice<p>In what could have profound implications for understanding the process of aging, a trio of scientific papers published today show that infusing elderly mice with the blood of young mice can reverse …

Near London's Clapham Junction, a home from home for young people charts the history of urban Britain and the teenager, and proves that the idea and value of the 'youth club' lives on<p>Providence House is an extraordinary institution, on the doorstep of Clapham Junction in London, but with roots in …